Comic Review — Star Trek: Annual (2023)
My thoughts on this extra inter-Star-Trek-crossovery comic from the already very crossover post-DS9 era Star Trek comic series. Written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, with art by Rachael Stott, coloured by Charlie Kirchoff.
This is first annual in the recent super-crossovery Star Trek comic series (just Star Trek, no subtitle), and it revels in taking that crossing-over of Star Treks to new heights in what is surely the most inclusive multi-series Star Trek story yet released. Via a holographic mishap the crew of the USS Theseus end up encountering characters and ships from every corner of the Star Trek universe, while following up on some of Voyager’s holographic rights plots.
In some form, big or small, this book features elements from almost every Star Trek series (I didn’t spot anything from Prodigy or specifically from Star Trek: The Animated Series, but the latter of those is just Star Trek: The Original Series in animated form anyway), including I think maybe the first crossover featuring characters from Strange New Worlds, and fully embracing and integrating modern Trek into classic Trek, with the inclusion of elements from Picard (a small and pleasingly obscure visual reference bringing a background detail form the series to life), Lower Decks, the Kelvin timeline, and a creative inclusion of Discovery.
